New Discovery Signals Rapid Decay in Antarctic Glacier
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in…
Earth Science News
Scientists Find Nebular Gases Preserved in Deep-Mantle Neon
The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the sun, trapping water and gases in the planet’s mantle, according to…
MMS Spacecraft Provide First-Ever Views of Elusive Energy Explosion
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have captured a difficult-to-view singular event involving “magnetic reconnection”—the process by which sparse particles and energy around Earth…
NASA Discovers a Massive Crater Under Greenland Ice
An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in…
NASA Satellites Map California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires — including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of…
NASA IceBridge Flight Spots Massive Antarctic Iceberg B-46
NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7, flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has…
International Space Station View of Earth Enveloped in Airglow
On October 7, 2018, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph while orbiting at an altitude of more than 250 miles…
NASA’s ICON Ready To Explore The Ionosphere
Early in the morning of November 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where…
Operation IceBridge Spots 2 Strangely Shaped Icebergs
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16, 2018. During the survey, designed to assess…
Counting Down to the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Launch
In October 2018, we’re launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, to study Earth’s dynamic interface to space. Its combination of remote and in situ measurements…
Apollo 7 Views Southern California
This view of southern California was taken by the Apollo 7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth, on October 12, 1968. Photographed from…
Drying, Less Predictable Climate May Have Spurred Human Evolution
A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from our hominin ancestors to anatomically modern humans, according to research…
NASA Satellite Captures 360-View of Hurricane Maria
Two days before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite captured a 3D view of the 2017 storm. At…
Scientists Develop New Way to Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field
Researchers in Canada, the United States, and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth’s magnetic field—by zapping a layer of sodium atoms…
ISS Image Captures the Creativity of Mother Nature
International Space Station Commander Alexander Gerst has a better view of our home planet than most. From aboard the orbital laboratory he sees Earth in…
‘Fingerprints’ of Ancient Weather Conditions
When a coastal tide rolls out, it can reveal beautiful ripples in the temporarily exposed sand. These same undulating patterns can also be seen in…
2018 Arctic Summertime Sea Ice Minimum, Sixth Lowest on Record
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2018 lowest extent on September 19 and again on September 23, according to NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow…
Scientists Observe Relationship Between Earth’s Surface Temperature and Its Outgoing Heat
Just as an oven gives off more heat to the surrounding kitchen as its internal temperature rises, the Earth sheds more heat into space as…
